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(4,175 posts)
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 06:11 PM Mar 2021

MO pastor faces backlash after suggesting wives should lose weight to look like Melania tRump

A Missouri pastor sparked outrage following a sermon he gave that many are calling sexist and misogynistic.

Pastor Stewart-Allen Clark of Missouri's Malden First General Baptist Church said in his Sunday sermon that women should look to maintain their figures and lose weight in order to keep their husband's attention. He also used a photo of former first Lady Melania Trump as an example of what women should aspire to.

“Now look, I’m not saying every woman can be the epic, epic trophy wife of all time like Melania Trump. I’m not saying that at all," Clark said as a photo of Trump was displayed on screen. "Most women can’t be trophy wives, but you know, maybe you’re a participation trophy. I don’t know, but all I can say is not everybody looks like that. Amen! Not everybody looks like that. But you don’t need to look like a butch either.”



https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/541885-missouri-pastor-faces-backlash-after-suggesting-wives-should-lose-weight

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MO pastor faces backlash after suggesting wives should lose weight to look like Melania tRump (Original Post) 634-5789 Mar 2021 OP
fuck him demtenjeep Mar 2021 #1
of course, he himself is so......trim Skittles Mar 2021 #2
You KNOW he had to be a doughy pantload!😎 NewDayOranges Mar 2021 #7
He should try to look more like President Biden. Delmette2.0 Mar 2021 #8
I was going to ask what his body shape is Catherine Vincent Mar 2021 #10
So, I guess this means that... mmbrevo Mar 2021 #14
Do all women need kidney surgery too? Sanity Claws Mar 2021 #3
i may get booted , but i feel that half of the population needs to go on a diet. AllaN01Bear Mar 2021 #4
Healthy foods should be subsidized and people should have free access to gyms and recreation. Beakybird Mar 2021 #5
What church is this? NO MA'AM? East-A-Squared Mar 2021 #6
My wife bmbmd Mar 2021 #9
Oh man O man O man... didn't this guy learn that you don't mitch96 Mar 2021 #11
I guess bdamomma Mar 2021 #12
A Missouri pastor is reportedly seeking 'professional counseling' after he told women to lose weight SharonClark Mar 2021 #13
does professional mean.....outside the church? Skittles Mar 2021 #19
Homophobic (or at least lesbophobic), too! ShazzieB Mar 2021 #15
Typical misogynistic a-hole. Beacool Mar 2021 #16
Of course he is fat and ugly, what else would you expect from a hypocritical republican. smirkymonkey Mar 2021 #17
I wonder if Brother Clark's aware of some of the pix Vogon_Glory Mar 2021 #18

AllaN01Bear

(18,275 posts)
4. i may get booted , but i feel that half of the population needs to go on a diet.
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 06:23 PM
Mar 2021

including said pastor .

Beakybird

(3,333 posts)
5. Healthy foods should be subsidized and people should have free access to gyms and recreation.
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 06:27 PM
Mar 2021

The government would save billions on medical care.
But weight loss diets generally don't work.

mitch96

(13,914 posts)
11. Oh man O man O man... didn't this guy learn that you don't
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 07:26 PM
Mar 2021

tug on supermans cape, you don't spit in the wind and you don't pull the mask off the o'l lone ranger and don't EVER tell you wife she's fat...... just sayin'

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SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
13. A Missouri pastor is reportedly seeking 'professional counseling' after he told women to lose weight
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 07:43 PM
Mar 2021

A Missouri pastor is seeking "professional counseling" after having delivered a sermon that advised women to lose weight and aspire to resemble former first lady Melania Trump.

Pastor Stewart-Allen Clark of Missouri's Malden First General Baptist Church is on leave and in counseling, the church told local CBS News affiliate KCTV. Clark made waves with a Sunday sermon in February where he said that women should strive to stay slim to keep men interested.

Source: Yahoo News

ShazzieB

(16,437 posts)
15. Homophobic (or at least lesbophobic), too!
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 07:53 PM
Mar 2021

"But you don’t need to look like a butch either.”

Because God forbid that a woman look "butch." Never mind that the standards of what is masculine or feminine are completely arbitrary anyway.

Clark probably thinks it's a "sin" for a woman to cut her hair short or *gasp* not wear makeup. Everyone knows that a woman is supposed to always look perfectly put together, from the top of her head to the tips of her toes (which should of course be fetchingy clad in stiletto heels). AND she's supposed to have time for all that on top of doing ALL the housework, cooking, and child care (and she better not chip those perfectly manicured nails, either).

This dude makes me want to hurl.

Beacool

(30,250 posts)
16. Typical misogynistic a-hole.
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 07:55 PM
Mar 2021

I can't abide the type of man who expects women to look like Barbies, particularly when they look like Quasimodos. Years ago a friend was debating getting breast augmentation because her then boyfriend liked bigger breasts. I told her to tell him that he should get back to her when he enlarged his dick. The nerve of these jerks!!!


 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
17. Of course he is fat and ugly, what else would you expect from a hypocritical republican.
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 08:00 PM
Mar 2021

Has he looked in a mirror lately? Why is it always men who look like that who are the most critical of women's looks?

Vogon_Glory

(9,122 posts)
18. I wonder if Brother Clark's aware of some of the pix
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 08:02 PM
Mar 2021

From Melania’s modeling career. It wasn’t that long ago that Baptists and other Evangelicals were howling that to be photographed in the buff or revealing lingerie were mile-posts on the highway to decadence and Eternal d*mnation.

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